Grab a Bite Eat Anytime, Anywhere
March 27, 2009
Do you remember the old saying, “never trust a skinny chef”?
Well I think today the tale has turned.
Firstly you rarely find a fat chef in the industry with some age these days. Secondly, at least you know that the skinny ones can move at pace around a busy kitchen.
A busy chef has hardly time to eat! Due to pressure of work, lack of hunger after preparing so much food, (that sounds strange but sometimes you just don’t feel like eating) lack of staff, no time to enjoy a sit down lunch or dinner break, are to mention a few.
I consider myself to be one of those chefs that finds it hard to sit down for a meal at work, because of the above reasons, and also I hate to cook for myself at work, and knowing that my other chefs are also very busy, how can you justify a break, we are a team after all.
Just the other day, a Saturday it was, we had a wedding that evening as well as lots of a la carte. The function room was set, the restaurant likewise. Kenny & I had the chance to down a salad which Cassi had made earlier.
With no place to sit, I turned up a plastic tub and we sat and ate our salads. It brought back memories of the time 19 years ago sitting on milk crates and boxes scoffing down a meal at any chance we had.
How times change for the better…………..NOT.
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Haha, that was a good day John, it also brought back some old memories for me too. I’ve said over the years that I’ve worked in some of the classiest establishments, but spent quality time getting to know carparks and garbage areas smoking, or crouched down somewhere out of sight of guests shoving a luke warm meal down my gob! Ah yes, tis a glamorous life that of a Chef….
Shannon Bennet from Vue de Monde, Melbourne also said, never trust a fat chef, his reason is that a hungry chef has a more finely tuned sense of taste and a better level of awareness during service, resulting in a better experience for the guest (don’t quote me on this, it’s been some years since I read his book, but it’s pretty close to what he said).